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Treasury

Answer

Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individual taxpayers who file self- assessment tax returns have registered for the Inland Revenue service for filing tax returns on the internet in each month since the service became available; how many have used the system to submit returns; and if he will make a statement. [99392] Ruth Kelly: The Registration service for the Internet service for Self Assessment became available on 3 April 2000. Figures of the number of users registered for the service from April 2000 to June 2001 were given the Paymaster General's answer of 19 July 2001, Official Report, column 382W. The Filing service became available on 3 July 2000. The number of registrations and filers in each month since the service became available is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Month Registrations Cumulative Filers Cumulative total April 2000 32,927 32,927 -- -- May 2000 14,877 47,814 -- -- June 2000 10,677 58,491 -- -- July 2000 11,703 70,194 6,765 6,765 August 2000 11,700 81,894 7,546 14,311 September 2000 16,557 98,451 9,628 23,939 October 2000 2,736 101,187 2,101 26,040 November 2000 1,697 102,884 1,063 27,103 December 2000 2,902 105,786 1,573 28,676 January 2001 14,162 119,948 10,305 38,981 February 2001 595 120,543 180 39,161 March 2001 522 121,065 129 39,290 April 2001 13,485 134,550 1,098 40,388 May 2001 5,208 139,758 2,878 43,266 June 2001 4,021 143,779 3,959 47,225 July 2001 2,618 146,397 6,887 54,112 August 2001 13,755 160,152 7,707 61,819 September 2001 3,994 164,146 12,977 74,796 October 2001 226 164,372 8,988 83,784 November 2001 4,775 169,147 1,760 85,544 December 2001 104,282 273,429 1,646 87,190 January 2002 86,849 360,278 23,404 110,594 February 2002 56,950 417,228 4,711 115,305 March 2002 31,550 448,778 222 115,527 April 2002 3,614,720 4,063,498 1,031 116,558 May 2002 32,912 4,096,410 9,897 126,455 June 2002 5,031 4,101,441 1,611 128,066 July 2002 13,113 4,114,554 26,051 154,117 August 2002 15,470 4,130,024 24,829 178,946 September 2002 38,742 4,168,766 81,982 260,928 October 2002 88,834 4,257,600 14,578 275,506 November 2002 40,901 4,298,501 13,454 288,960 December 2002 50,098 4,348,599 23,329 312,289 January 2003 60,957 4,409,556 127,948 440,237 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

99392; 400 c1064W;400 c1054W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Income tax Internet Take-up Self-assessment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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